Current Killerfeatures (sorry to interrupt the ongoing discussion about mediaservers):
Price. For half the money you get something that can essentially do the same as SONOS. (Though apparently with a lot more hassle for most users.) Logitech brand. Logitech may not be known for software or HIFI. But they have a very wellknown brand, compared to most other players in the music-streaming market. New customers do tend to find "safety" in a known brand. Product Lineup. Though an active zone would be really nice, I think the squeeze lineup (Once complete again) is much more suitable (For me at least). Control without the need for a fancy lcd-remote is important. Fancy LCD-remote. Apart from supporting online services (which aren't available in Denmark anyway) This is one thing that really sets out Sqeeze from the DNLA-crowd. I would like to ad third party developed stuff as a killerfeature. But to a new customer learning about the products from normal marketing it is not. Maybe even the other way around: "Is Logitech not able to make the suficient software for this?". For new customers learning about the products from existing customers, it is another case. And certainly for existing customer it's vital. --- That leads me to what customers could be focused on. I would say that me and my family have about 80% chance of buying at least one more Squeezeproduct. And 50% of buying even more. All that given that I like what is available and the quality of the hard- and software is good enough. Whereas my three closest neighbourghs are more in the area of a 0,0002% chance of buying into the concept. --- I will not try to list ideas for new features that may lead Squeeze to a bright future. But just about anyone i heard of that wanted to get into the streaming game at home, starts out looking for one single device for both video and audio. The use cases may be different, but most people have both their dvd-player and cd-player hooked up to the same AV-reciever/Stereo. And buying one or more mediastreamers will not change that. So it's only natural that they want it in one unit. If it's a good idea technically, I don't know, but It's what most people expect to buy when at first they venture into the streaming world. -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Running off old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
